“I’ve been doing some thinking about how to best define innovation in education. I’ve been reading a lot of mission statements lately for schools and districts and keep finding the word “innovative” used, yet little sign of practices in the objectives, tactics and goals to back this up. The tactics and action plan seem to be oriented towards producing test scores and the practices seem 20th century at best.”

San Francisco Chronicle Photography project offers new views of Tenderloin, kids San Francisco Chronicle But this year the 17-year-old joined a neighborhood youth project and discovered “visual language,” a different way of looking at things…